Princeton enjoyed a special screening of The Return and discussion with the film’s director, Uberto Pasolini, and Barbara Graziosi, Chair of the Classics Department, along with Rachael DeLue, director of the Humanities Initiative, and fellow art & archaeology faculty member Carolina Mangone, who is also the director of the Program in Italian Studies. 

Princeton Classics was honored last month to play host to “Life, Liberty, Love, Food & Drink: On Poetry and the Creative Process,” a reading and discussion in celebration of the Classical Outlook’s Special Poetry Issue. Before a capacity lecture hall, poetic luminaries like A.E. Stallings, Charles Martin, and Christopher Childers took turns to read their poems, explain their engagement with classical antiquity and take questions from the audience.

Princeton Classics is proud to announce that our program’s latest graduate, Dr. Jermaine Bryant, has been appointed to the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. Bryant joins a small body of Latinists ever to have been named to the Society, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious postdoctoral positions.

When Luke Soucy ’19 is not busy as the communications specialist in Princeton Classics, he’s also — in his own words — “moonlighting” as a decorated literary translator. His first book project, 

Edward “Ted” James Champlin, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, died of cardiac arrest at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington on Dec. 23, 2024. He was 76.